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"And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country--as you value your own sacred honor--as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretences, to overturn the liberties of our country, and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord, and deluge our rising empire in blood." --George Washington, 1783
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Ali should make the list. Huey Long should be higher. I didn't see D.W. Griffith, but I was skimming. Ellington instead of Armstrong, maybe. And Nixon should be higher than LBJ. List is good, for the most part, but tilted toward "popular" choices of people who we like. Equally, if not more interesting would be list of top 100 americans that most americans don't know.
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